diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 10a0166d..44e2a4a2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1925,6 +1925,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "mio 0.8.8",
  "momento",
  "net",
+ "once_cell",
  "paste",
  "protocol-memcache",
  "protocol-ping",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 356a2bb3..723b50a9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ momento = "0.31.0"
 metriken = { git = "https://github.com/brayniac/rustcommon", branch = "metriken-histograms" }
 mio = "0.8.8"
 net = { git = "https://github.com/pelikan-io/pelikan" }
+once_cell = "1.18.0"
 paste = "1.0.14"
 protocol-memcache = { git = "https://github.com/pelikan-io/pelikan" }
 protocol-ping = { git = "https://github.com/pelikan-io/pelikan" }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e8447ce2..0df46361 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use crate::clients::launch_clients;
 use crate::pubsub::launch_pubsub;
 use crate::workload::{launch_workload, Generator};
@@ -30,10 +31,12 @@ use metrics::*;
 type Instant = clocksource::Instant<clocksource::Nanoseconds<u64>>;
 type UnixInstant = clocksource::UnixInstant<clocksource::Nanoseconds<u64>>;
 
+type HistogramSnapshots = HashMap<Histograms, metriken::histogram::Snapshot>;
+
 static RUNNING: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(true);
 
-static SNAPSHOTS: Arc<RwLock<VecDeque<HashMap<Histograms, metriken::histogram::Snapshot>>>> =
-    Arc::new(RwLock::new(VecDeque::new()));
+static SNAPSHOTS: Lazy<Arc<RwLock<VecDeque<HistogramSnapshots>>>> =
+    Lazy::new(|| Arc::new(RwLock::new(VecDeque::new())));
 
 fn main() {
     // custom panic hook to terminate whole process after unwinding